FULL EPISODE: Fort Wayne, Indiana

FULL EPISODE: Fort Wayne, Indiana | Main Streets

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Fort Wayne, Indiana, is such a great city to visit, but residents say the best part is living here.
John knew it‘s home to Vera Bradley and Sweetwater. But he didn’t expect a Diocesan Museum, a huge Public Library with genealogy center and Abe Lincoln collection, the most perfect Children’s Zoo or Coney Island Hot Dogs. What a great city!
Featured Locations Include:
0:00 Intro
1:58 Fort Wayne, IN
2:35 Three rivers
3:08 Diocesan Museum
5:04 1815 Re-enactments Forts
5:43 Sweetwater Sound
7:52 Science Central
8:18 Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo
10:26 The History Center
10:56 Invention of the TV
11:12 Sunbeam Bread
12:23 Peg-Perego
13:25 Embassy Theatre
14:10 Vera Bradley
17:28 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Bridge
17:59 St Mary’s River & Promenade Park
18:31 Allen County Public Library
20:45 Camp Allen Park
21:32 Parkview Field
22:03 Fort Wayne's Famous Coney Island
23:52 Forrest Park Boulevard
24:26 Outro
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@jas22980 Жыл бұрын

The Fort Wayne Zoo is an absolute gem!

@tacorikizer Жыл бұрын

Bffr

@TJRohyans Жыл бұрын

I grew up in New Haven, just to the east of Ft. Wayne, but haven't lived there since graduating High School in 1989 and entering service in the USAF. I always loved Ft. Wayne. It's nice to see so much revitalization. Ft. Wayne has so much wonderful history that so many just aren't aware of.

@aclarkhmr 8 ай бұрын

My mom is from Fort Wayne. Went to South Side High School and grew up on Oakdale Drive. Her family later moved to South Wayne Avenue, which I remember from my childhood when visiting my grandmother and uncle Bob. The family name is Druhot. I'd like to get back there someday and maybe see if the current homeowners would allow us to go through the S Wayne house. Sending this link to my brother who spent summers there.

@gbengaadeku Жыл бұрын

This is by far my favorite video about Fort Wayne.

@independ4416 Жыл бұрын

Excellent job John! My daughter and I watched your Kalamazoo episode and we both felt it would be nice if you could spotlight Fort Wayne and here you are. I was hoping you would share some of the history of our great factories in the city. Like Zollner Pistons being the forerunner of the Detroit Pistons and the former location of the headquarters of International Harvester. I have always felt that if Harvester could have remained in Fort Wayne and continued to make the Scout, they could have possibly dominated the SUV market being that they were ahead of the curve. We enjoyed watching from San Antonio, TX. Thanks for shining the spotlight on our wonderful city!

@bryanlosen3262 Жыл бұрын

A wonderful all American city!! Raised my family there and almost all still live there. Full of great restaurants too and championship golf courses. Never ending things to do!!

@alkebulan44 Жыл бұрын

John your energy is amazing !

@davidfox1290 Жыл бұрын

My parents and brother were born there....Have spent alot of time there myself although I was born and raised in California. I go back almost every summer to spend time with all my cousins. I love it there! Such a great old town feeling. John should have talked about Parkview Park downtown...Single A Padres team there...The Tin Caps. Its a must...

@jennybaber3563 Жыл бұрын

My hometown! Man, I miss Coney Island!

@tybennett65 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for visiting our city and creating this amazing video!

@bethklingensmith163 Жыл бұрын

Very enjoyable. Glad you included the Genealogy library

@PthaloGreen2 Жыл бұрын

Vera Bradley just opened a store in ATL Hartsfield Jackson. I didn't realize the founders were inspired by the oodles of black suitcases there!

@billordaf9510 11 ай бұрын

Great video!

@AgoraSomosGringos Жыл бұрын

Awesome video!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤

@rocknrollnsonicthehedgehog329 Жыл бұрын

Bummed you didn’t visit the gloryhole at swinney park.

@theokay1 Жыл бұрын

This is some interesting information but yall forgot about the high murder and just basic crime rate it isn't real fort wayne until you go down bowser or pontiac and get shot

@zappothesane4910 11 ай бұрын

There were only 23 homicides here last year. For a city of 270,000, that's pretty damn good. Our highest year for homicides was 2016, with 48. But that was an outlier and still well below the national average for large cities. Yes, Fort Wayne has bad/dangerous neighborhoods, but name a single city our size that doesn't.

@ShreverBeaver Жыл бұрын

Shhhhhh…. Don’t tell everyone how great Fort Wayne is. They may move here.

@oldfarmshow 11 ай бұрын

👍

@3l_Pinxhe_JoE Жыл бұрын

Im heartbroken... you could have visited the South of Fort Wayne... Like Bower Ave. You will find many attractions there 😂

@scottneuman8896 Жыл бұрын

Actually, the flag pole at the historic fort is not correct. It would have been in two large sections, not a single section, as in a ship's mast.

@zezegambles Жыл бұрын

Show the hood

@RiaFarmer-og3nj 6 ай бұрын

😂

@miamiindian Жыл бұрын

This video made me happy but kind of insulted at the same time... Why wasn't the Indigenous Miami mentioned? Especially when you got to the Old Fort? Carlos Nakai literally played live in the Embassy... I know because my brother was responsible for bringing him in from the airport... I understand your video was based on promoting the city but still it IS annoying not to even be mentioned in the history. Mad Anthony Wayne literally took all this from the Miami... just saying.. The zoo,,, always awesome. And Coney Island... my grandparents ate there, my mother took me there, and I in turn took my youngest son there to eat. Basic staple of life that makes a person like me come back just for a hotdog with a steamed bun. I am very happy to see the city I grew up in is getting better, I LOVED the old library, I used to hang out there with my best friend reading or using the typewriters .

@bryanlosen3262 Жыл бұрын

People are offended today by so many things. You obviously are one of those. Instead of enjoying a little bit of the history of that great city, you choose to emphasize the things in your world that should have been included. Sad...

@zappothesane4910 11 ай бұрын

Kekionga was mentioned. The video left out a lot of history, pretty much all of it. Besides the Miami, the Delaware, Shawano, Putawatimi, and Kickapoo were also native to the area. Why not get upset that they were left out? They also did not mention the French, who were the first Europeans to come to the area and build a fort here. They left out the huge German immigrant population that arrived beginning in the early 19th century. Let's just get upset about everything.

@daddy2ateam 11 ай бұрын

This series is obviously not a historical documentary.

@cooperfranklin2455 10 ай бұрын

This comment has become someone being offended, then someone being offended that the OP was not offended enough, lord help us.

@arlenyperez7367 Жыл бұрын

Are The Spanish peoples welcome ? 😢

@cooperfranklin2455 10 ай бұрын

_No_

@walterscott2286 9 ай бұрын

Don't listen to that one Donald Trump evil MAGA head!! You certainly would be welcome! Listen: THERE ARE NICE PEOPLE WHEREVER YOU GO! And if Fort Wayne Indiana isn't your ideal spot, look into beautiful Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Everytime I go into the Walmart there, I hear lots of Hispanic people talking Spanish! I mean a LOT! I personally love Mexican and Latin American people. And our whole dairy farm industry completely depends on Hispanic people to work on the farms. Plenty of good factory jobs too! There's also at least 4 or 5 nice Mexican restaurants in Manitowoc. You are Welcome here!🤗

@povertyspec9651 11 ай бұрын

Worst highway system in the US

@cooperfranklin2455 10 ай бұрын

@bricksandtech7958 4 ай бұрын

Our beloved I-69 lol

@Mylifemylifemylifendasunshine Жыл бұрын

Looks mighty cheesy

@zappothesane4910 11 ай бұрын

I've lived here since 1980 when my family moved up from Florida. It is boring here. Very conservative (possibly the reddest area in the entire nation). But you'd be hard pressed to find a city the same size in the Midwest that isn't just as cheesy. This isn't NYC or LA. Nor is it pretending to be.

@danielcohn7854 2 ай бұрын

Camp Allen had the nation's first professional league baseball game. Downtown has an indoor botanical center. The Forest Park Historical District has beautiful, historic homes. The zoo which is seasonal like some other zoos in Indiana has an excellent collection and is designed to be viewable to children. The Fort Wayne Philharmonic which performs at the Embassy Theater is a very professional orchestra. The new Riverwalk has some nice overlooks based on the video in the program. There is nothing "cheesy" whatever that means about any of it.

@themousaimum Жыл бұрын

Do you wish to work anywhere in Fort Wayne Indiana and afford their tattoos, no.

@zappothesane4910 11 ай бұрын

I've gotten 4 tattoos here. And I live and work in Fort Wayne. The tattoos were very affordable and are excellent quality. We actually have some very good artists in town. No one I know has a problem paying for them. But I guess if you only make $15 an hour and have kids to feed, you might have to pass.